Red Hat Security Advisory

RHSA-2026:0935

gnupg2 security update

Released 2026-01-21 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

Fixed in

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.8) gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_8.1, gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_8.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.8) gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_8.1, gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_8.1

Fixes 1 record

TI-2025-42429 CVE-2025-68973 · GHSA-pj23-86ww-f72p

Out-of-bounds write in GnuPG

HIGH 69

In GnuPG before 2.4.9, armor_filter in g10/armor.c has two increments of an index variable where one is intended, leading to an out-of-bounds write for crafted input.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8 Local No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00152 Published 2025-12-28 Partial fix · 2.2.51, 2.4.9 CWE-675